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DrPaper posted:I think people complaining about the black and white judgement of the show need to realize, these people are being judged by a character explicitly stated and recognized by himself to not be human, and has already admitted to mistakes in his judgement. Queendecim is not the afterlife everyone receives, it's the one these people who died at the same time got stuck with. If there's one thing to take away from the show it's that life isn't fair, and neither is death. Yeah, you can mock Decim for being a spergy goonlord, but the point is that he's meant to be an emotionless and impartial arbiter. As we've seen though, that doesn't work for some edge cases like Episodes 1 & 2, hence why he's now got an assistant to call him on his actions occasionally. cammy14 posted:While I don't think Misaki really deserved being voided, she's definitely the worse of the two just because her abusive behavior must have hurt quite a few people over the years. I imagine the misgivings most people have toward the verdict is that she looked like she have the capability to change into a better person given the chance. Misaki was fundamentally in it for herself. She even derides her own children as worthless when they turn up as an attack that turns out to be pretty weak. And the short of it is that she got sent to the Void because all she'd do is make bad decisions all over again. tlarn posted:Well there's the thread title to go with the anime title. Actually, I've got a contender; It's not about whether they win or lose, it's how they play the game.
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AnacondaHL posted:A few things: first, are some of you using a translation that says Queendecim? I'm pretty sure it's just supposed to be Quindecim, or the number 15. If you look carefully, you can see the bottom of "Quindecim" as a sign above the bar.. Kegslayer posted:Had the mother and the otaku switched places then I don't think there's any doubt that things would have been different. After all it's Decim himself who highlights that things are never fair. You've got the emphasis wrong. They weren't her CHILDREN, they were HER children. Everything was about her, and even as a mother she had little sympathy or kindness for others, which is what lead to her own murder and continued to show right to the point of braining the guy into the arcade monitor. There's a difference between doing anything for your kids and going for the sociopath option of straight-off manipulating a stranger to put yourself ahead of whatever happens because you want to come out on top. Hell, she even put her kids on a reality TV show. In the end she was her own worst victim, and the product of her own poor life choices. She got flushed to the void because that cycle of poor choices would've just occurred all over again.
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Phobophilia posted:And did we see emotional abuse? The worse we saw was her offloading responsibilities to her oldest children while she worked at home. No alcoholism, no drugs, no screaming at the kids, none of those cliches. Multiple abusive spouses, and however many men she drunkenly dragged home. Take a moment to remember just how small a cheap japanese apartment is in regard to that second one.
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Xelkelvos posted:Yeah, that was a very good depiction of bimbo-esque individuals like Harada. Of course, the icing on the cake was the bomb. I almost did a spit take when I saw that since I was expecting him to jump out of the window out of grief After all the relatively serious deaths, I was not expecting a loving clock bomb on a silver platter  . Or for her death to be as anticlimactic as slipping in the shower.
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Paracelsus posted:I'm not sure if the masks when the players arrive are supposed to indicate their intended destination. Have we seen them change for the various arrivals? When the bowling couple left, both of them were very clearly getting reincarnated.
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Lurking Haro posted:The young guy in Death Billiards was stabbed, if it's part of the continuity. Well these are meant to be exceptional cases even if they died at the same time, so I doubt a little old lady passing away of old age is going to turn up. Plus we just saw Nona explicitly drop a pair of special cases on Decim.
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AnacondaHL posted:This episode made it confusing whether humans are even supposed to be able to end up as an Arbiters Incorporated employees. Pretty sure they aren't. Nona seems to be breaking a lot of rules, and black-haired girl's something she's trying to keep from Oculus.
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Pyronic posted:My understanding is that the Chiyuki doll was *the* doll she had been inhabiting throughout the show. When they're in the pit of discarded dolls, Chiyuki asks Decim if this is where she'll end up and he makes a point of telling her that she won't, and she thanks him for it. I liked the little book-end of the credits where it showed the Chavvot dolls sitting in Chiyuki's doll hands instead of her human ones.
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ViggyNash posted:I think ending with Chiuki departure was a good place to end, but I'll be kind of disappointed if they don't follow this up with something else, at least an OVA. There's a lot of very compelling side details that were provided but never really explained, and the conflict b/w Nona and Lotus Beard (forgot his name) fell flat because it seemed they didn't quite know what to do with it. It did have a bit of resolution; Rule 4.
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